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Box Tunnel passes through Box Hill on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) between Bath and Chippenham. The 1.83-mile (2.95 km) tunnel was the world's longest railway ...
Box Primary School The Blind House lock-up (early 18th century) [48] Box is home to Box Church of England Primary School. The earliest school was established near the church in 1708; the present building on the High Street, with attached house, is from 1875. [49] Pevsner describes it as "Gothic, with a terrible, spindly tower". [50]
The maximum gradient between Paddington and Didcot is 1 in 1320 (0.75 ‰ or 0.075%); between Didcot and Swindon it is 1 in 660 (1.5 ‰ or 0.15%) but west of Swindon, gradients as steep as 1 in 100 (10 ‰ or 1%) are found in places, such as Box Tunnel and to the east of Dauntsey.
From the road the Box Tunnel, built as part of the Great Western Railway, can be seen clearly. The road bears to the right at the junction with the A365 to Melksham , and criss-crosses with the main railway line as far as the roundabout at Bathford which forms a junction with the A363 towards Bradford-on-Avon .
a bridge–tunnel carrying monorail Great Belt Fixed Link: 1997 Denmark Zealand and Funen Great Belt: includes a railway tunnel, bridge–tunnel transition uses natural island Øresund Bridge: 2000 Denmark/Sweden Copenhagen and Malmö: Øresund/Öresund: includes a railway tunnel Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge: 2009 China
Box Hill is a small village in Wiltshire, England, most notable for its position above Brunel's famous Box Tunnel.It is located on the A4 road just northeast of Box village, approximately 2 miles (3 km) west of the centre of the town of Corsham, and approximately 6 miles (10 km) northeast of the World Heritage city of Bath.
Artemisio Tunnel (road), double tunnel, under Mount Artemision, 1.40 km; 76 tunnels of the A2 motorway (Egnatia Odos), most notably in parts of Epirus and Western Macedonia, combined length of 99 km, the longest of which are Driskos Tunnel 4.6 km, Metsovo Tunnel 3.5 km, Dodoni Tunnel 3.6 km, Kastania Tunnel 2.2 km, Anilio Tunnel 2.1 km
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